Knockdown table



May 18,1926. 1,585,459

C. O. BAUER KNOCKDOWN TABLE Filed Oct'. 25, 1922 Patented May 18, 1926. I 5 9 UITED STATES PATENT QFFHCE.

CHRISTIAN O. BAUER, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

KNOCKDOWN TABLE.

Application filed October 25, 1922. Serial No. 596,768.

The object of the invention is to provide a dicated are of wood or other relatively light simple and eliicient table construction adaptmaterial. The table leaves may be applied 40 ing it to be knocked down for folding into to the cross bars by sliding the grooves therecompact form for storage when not in use of into engagement with the guides and may or for facilitating transportation, and in be secured in the desired relative positions that connection to provide a structure which by set-screws 16 carried by each cross bar will be firm and substantial when erected for near its ends and adapted for terminal fricuse and which is of simple construction tional engagement with the under surface of. adapting it to be embodied in relatively inone of the i'narginal top leaves. In the con 10 expensive styles of furniture; and with this struction illustrated these set-screws entenl object 111 view the invention consists in a entirely through the cross bars with a wing construction and combination of parts of head 17 exposed at the under side thereof which a preferred embodiment is shown in within convenient reach of the operator, and

the accompanying drawings, wherein with an adjacent threaded port-ion 18 en 15 FLOUI'G 1 1s an end and a 'ed with a socket 19 embedded in the cross 1 u 7 t b a llgure 2 1s a side view of a table structure bar. en'ibodying the invention. The legs are attached to the cross bars Fi ure 3 is a )ers oectlve view )artl' near their ends b 7 means of bolts 20 fitted z: p I i bro-ken awa 1 of one 01 the table to leaves. with thumb nuts 21 and b loosenin the 20 Fi 'ures i and 5 are sectional views re nuts the le s ma be turned to occua a spectively on the planes indicated by the position substantially parallel with the cross lines 1- and 5-5 of Figure l. bars as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1 The table consists essentially of the cross to facilitate folding into compact form for bars 10, the legs 11 attached to and carried storage or shipment.

5 by the cross bars, and the top preferably Having described the invention, what is comprising a plurality of leaves 12 supclaimed as new and useful is ported by the cross bars and having an in- A knock-down table having cross bars and terloclting sliding engagement therewith. lugs attached to the cross l ars a top consist- In the construction illustrated the top ing of leaves having interlocking sliding en- 3 leaves are )rovided with transverse metallic a ement with the cross bars interiorlv cleats 13 embedded therein and serving as a threaded sockets in the under faces of the means of strengthening the same against cross bars, and set screws threadingly ensplitting and preventing the warping or gaging said sockets and extending through curving thereof, and in these cleats are said cross bars for hearing engagement with 0 formed under-cut grooves 14 for the recepthe marginal top leaves.

tion of T head guides 15 carried by the cross in testimony whereof he aliixes his signabars 10, said guides also preferably being of ture. V v metal particularly when the cross bars as in CHRlS'llAN O. BAUER. 

